title: Porosity: a curiosity without diagnostic significance.
abstract: A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for osteoarthritis.
authors.affiliation: Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown 44512, USA. bmr@neoucom.edu
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Rothschild
mesh_terms: D000885:Anthropology, Physical / Q000379:methods*; D001857:Bone Matrix / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016062:Porosity